Verse 27
Daniel 5:27
GOD'S WORD Translation
27
TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
Original Language Text
hebrew
תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה בְ/מֹֽאזַנְיָ֖/א וְ/הִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ חַסִּֽיר
English Translation
You will weigh your weighing in balances, and you will not be found lacking.
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Chapter 5 Context
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Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousan...
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Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnez...
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Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God (Elohim)’s house which...
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They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of sto...
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5
In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster...
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Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs...
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The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke...
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Then all the king’s wise men came in; but they could not read the writing, and couldn’t make known t...
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Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perpl...
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10
The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen sp...
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There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your fath...
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because an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting of dreams, showing of dark sente...
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Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel...
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I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light, understanding, and excel...
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Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing...
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But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts. Now if you can read...
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Then Daniel answered before the king, “Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to anoth...
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“You, king, the Most High God (Elohim) gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, a...
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Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and fear...
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But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was depos...
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He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was w...
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“You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
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but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his hou...
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Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.
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“This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’
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“This is the interpretation of the thing:
MENE: God (Elohim) has counted your kingdom, and brought i...
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TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
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PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
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Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his ne...
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In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
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31
Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
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